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February 2nd 2012

21 CEOs Who Floated Away On Golden Parachutes Worth More Than $100 Million

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courtenaybird:

Being the CEO of a multibillion-dollar global corporation is tough work. Or at least it had better be, considering the amount of money some of these folks were paid just to quit:

  • John F. Welch Jr.; General Electric (1981-2001) $417,361,902
  • Lee R. Raymond; Exxon Mobil Corp. (1993-2005) $320,599,861
  • William D. McGuire; UnitedHealth Group (1991-2006) $285,996,009
  • Edward E. Whitacre Jr.; AT&T (1990-2007) $230,048,463
  • Robert L. Nardelli; Home Depot Inc. (2000-2007) $223,290,123
  • John A. Kanas; North Fork Bank (1977-2006) $214,300,000
  • Fred Hassan; Merck & Co., Inc./Schering-Plough (2003-2009) $189,352,324
  • Louis V. Gerstner Jr.; IBM (1993-2002) $189,005,929
  • Hank A. McKinnell Jr.; Pfizer Inc. (2001-2006) $188,329,553
  • Thomas M. Ryan; CVS Caremark Corp. (1998-2011) $185,415,435
  • James M. Kilts; Gillette Co. (2001-2005) $164,532,192
  • Robert J. Ulrich; Target Corp. (1994-2008) $164,162,612
  • E. Stanley O’Neal; Merrill Lynch & Co. (2002-2007) $161,500,000
  • Jerry A. Grundhofer; U.S. Bancorp (2001-2006) $159,064,090
  • Joel F. Gemunder; Omnicare, Inc. (2001-2010) $146,001,476
  • Wallace D. Malone Jr.; Wachovia/South Trust (1981-2004) $125,292,818
  • George A. L. David; United Technologies Corp. (1994-2008) $122,631,309
  • Margaret C. Whitman; eBay Inc. (1998-2008) $120,427,360
  • Leonard Schaeffer; WellPoint Health (1992-2004) $119,041,000
  • Bob R. Simpson; XTO Energy Inc. (1986-2008) $103,485,972
  • Thomas E. Freston; Viacom (2006) $100,839,772

Posted at 8:30am and tagged with: economic,.

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    Said it before…this is the real insanity!!! Ugh!!!
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    Expensive parachutes..
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